Bow Works
Bow Works, Pomona Street
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1271058
- Date first listed:
- 06-Dec-1990
- List Entry Name:
- Bow Works
- Statutory Address:
- Bow Works, Pomona Street
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1271058
- Date first listed:
- 06-Dec-1990
- List Entry Name:
- Bow Works
- Statutory Address 1:
- Bow Works, Pomona Street
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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- Bow Works, Pomona Street
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Sheffield (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SK 34281 86139
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 8 April 2022 to update the name and address and to reformat the text to current standards
SK3486SW
784-1/34/601
SHEFFIELD
POMONA STREET (South East side)
Bow Works
06/12/90
II
Measuring tool works, now offices. 1865-68 and 1903, with some later alterations. For J Chesterman & Co. Red brick with ashlar dressings and slate roofs with two external gable stacks.
EXTERIOR: plinth, first floor sillband and second floor band, wooden eaves.
Workshop ranges, to Pomona Street, three storeys; 40 window range. Mid C19 workshop, to right, has nineteen 12-pane sashes with brick flat arches, one blocked and some partly reglazed. Above, nineteen nine-pane sashes. Below, an off-centre round-arched cart entrance with imposts and the name "Bow Works" in raised lettering. Keystone inscribed "J C & Co.". Double board doors. To right, 12 reglazed windows with brick flat arches, two of them blocked. To left, a tall window, then a door and two late C20 windows and three blocked openings. 1903 office range, to left, has symmetrical front, 21 windows, with gabled central bay. Three-light casement, and above it, an ashlar plaque with the words "Bow Works, J C" in raised letters under a pediment. Above again, a large round-arched window projecting into the gable. Below, round-arched doorway with brick voussoirs and wooden entablature. On either side, ten composite sashes, and above again, ten nine-pane sashes. Ground floor has on either side five large four-light casements with wooden pilasters and continuous entablature.
To south of the main works entrance, two long two-storey wings over 30 bays long, with mostly glazing bar sashes on the upper floors. The lower floors are largely obscured by later single storey additions. To east, a truncated circular stack, and to west, a block with hipped roof.
INTERIOR not inspected.
This company, later Rabone Chesterman, were leading makers of measuring tools from the mid C19 to the late C20.
Listing NGR: SK3428186139
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 456260
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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